My Favorite Tv Presenter and Why I Admire Her

As a black child born in a racist country, she suffered a lot during her childhood, including issues such as poverty and the continuous altercations between her parents. Oprah Gail Winfrey’s childhood was very difficult, but the problems she suffered from during that time helped in building her personality and making her the great person she is today. Her name was supposed to be Orpah but due to the difficulty in pronunciation, she was given the name Oprah. After her birth, her unmarried parents separated and she lived with her grandmother who was very a strict person and made Oprah learn reading when she didn't even reach the age of 3. She skipped kindergarten after telling her teacher that she belonged to the first grade and after that year she was promoted to third grade. At the age of six she had to leave her grandmother and live with her mother and two half-brothers in Milwaukee in a ghetto, which is known to be a poor and dangerous neighborhood. At 12 she had to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee where she began to feel happy and secure and started to make speeches at social gatherings. She knew she was about to be paid to talk when she was given 500 dollars for talking in one of these gatherings. She had to leave the tranquility and safety she found at her father house and return back to her mother where she was repeatedly abused sexually starting from the age of 9 by men who were trusted by her mother, who didn’t have time for supervision as she was working at odd jobs.

Winfrey became an excellent student participating in many clubs in school such as drama club, debate club, student council, elks club speaking context. And because of that she won a full scholarship to Tennesse state university, then she was invited to many events which helped her in her carrier in the future.

She was crowned Miss Fire Prevention by WVOL, and started working at local Nasville radio station to read afternoon new cast.

During her freshman year at Tennesse state she became Miss Black Nashville and Miss Tennesse. She was offered a job by the Nashville Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and turned it down twice but finally she took the advice of teacher which told her that the job offered for her were ‘The reason people go to college’. She was still nineteen years old and a sophomore in college when the show broadcasted was seen each evening, and Winfrey was Nashville’s first American female coacher of the evening news.

After graduating, she was scheduled to do the local news updates by WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. and soon she was moved to the morning talk show Baltimore Is Talking with cohost Richard Sher. After seven years on the show, the general manager of WLS-TV, American Broadcasting Company's (ABC) Chicago affiliate, saw Winfrey in an audition tape sent in by her producer, Debra DiMaio. At the time her ratings in Baltimore were better than Phil Donahue's, a national talk-show host, and she and DiMaio were hired. in January 1984 she moved to Chicago and took over as an anchor on A.M. Chicago, an important TV program that was consistently last in the ratings. She changed the emphasis of the show from traditional women's issues to current and controversial (debatable) topics, and after one month the show was even with Donahue's program. Three months later it had inched ahead. In September 1985 the program, renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show, was expanded to one hour. As a result, Donahue moved to New York City.

In 1985 Quincy Jones (1933–) saw Winfrey on television and thought she would make a fine actress in a movie he was coproducing with director Steven Spielberg (1946–). The film was based on the Alice Walker (1944–) novel The Color Purple. Her only acting experience until then had been in a one-woman show, The History of Black Women Through Drama and Song, which she performed during an African American theater festival in 1978.

her popularity raised up a lot after the success of The purple colors. in 1986 Winfrey received a special award from the Chicago Academy for the Arts for unique contributions to the city's artistic community and was named Woman of Achievement by the National Organization of Women. The Oprah Winfrey Show won several Emmys for Best Talk Show, and Winfrey was honored as Best Talk Show Host.

she formed her own production company in 1986 to produce the topics she wanted to be produced. Winfrey started on-air reading club in September 1996. Winfrey stood up on September 17 and declared that she wanted to 'have the nation reading.' She asked her adoring fans to rush to the shops to purchase the book she 'd selected. Then, they 'd discuss it together on air the next month. The initial reaction was enormous. As a first book, the Ocean's Deep End had generated strong sales; 68,000 copies had gone into the stores since June. Yet between the last week of August, when Winfrey told the publisher about her intentions, and the September announcement on-air, Viking printed 90,000 more.

As one of America 's richest women and the world's highest paying entertainer, Winfrey has made generous donations to charities and organizations including Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund, and Tennessee State University, at the end we all need to respect her work and donations for helping people in need, Thank you Oprah.